Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Familial partial lipodystrophy (FPLD) is a rare syndrome in which a patient’s phenotype is not dependent merely on the specific genetic mutation, but also on a combination of other demographic, environmental and genetic factors. In this report, we present a large cohort of novel mutation in FPLD patients from a large referral center in Greece and we investigate the possible relationship between the genetic variations detected and their phenotype and the effect...

Background: Obesity is over-represented in patients with psoriasis (PSO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and associated with higher disease activity and poorer treatment response. A substantial number of studies have highlighted the beneficial effect of weight loss in PSO and PsA disease activity. However, the data regarding the most efficacious diet pattern are scarce. The aim of our study to evaluate the effectiveness of Mediterranean diet (MD) and Ketogenic diet (KD), in pati...